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UAI
2001
13 years 7 months ago
Instrumentality Tests Revisited
An instrument is a random variable that is uncorrelated with certain (unobserved) error terms and, thus, allows the identification of structural parameters in linear models. In no...
Blai Bonet
UAI
2001
13 years 7 months ago
A Calculus for Causal Relevance
We present a sound and complete calculus for causal relevance that uses Pearl's functional causal models as semantics. The calculus consists of axioms and rules of inference ...
Blai Bonet
UAI
2001
13 years 7 months ago
Pre-processing for Triangulation of Probabilistic Networks
Hans L. Bodlaender, Arie M. C. A. Koster, Frank va...
UAI
2001
13 years 7 months ago
Markov Chain Monte Carlo using Tree-Based Priors on Model Structure
We present a general framework for defining priors on model structure and sampling from the posterior using the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm. The key ideas are that structure pri...
Nicos Angelopoulos, James Cussens
UAI
2001
13 years 7 months ago
Bayesian Error-Bars for Belief Net Inference
Tim Van Allen, Russell Greiner, Peter Hooper
UAI
2001
13 years 7 months ago
UCP-Networks: A Directed Graphical Representation of Conditional Utilities
We propose a directed graphical representation of utility functions, called UCP-networks, that combines aspects of two existing preference models: generalized additive models and ...
Craig Boutilier, Fahiem Bacchus, Ronen I. Brafman